This profoundly influential book re-examines events leading up to the Reformation in England and illuminates our understanding of the period. A prize-winning account, it recreates lay people's experience of the religion of the pre-Reformation church showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation ...

Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History' was completed in 731 and still ranks among the most popular of history books. In this edition, the Latin text is accompanied by a English translation; the introduction provides an historical background and a survey of surviving manuscripts

Queen Mary's brutal methods for restoring Catholicism to England earned her the name Bloody Mary . This is the story of her persecution of men such as Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, both of whom were burned at the stake, as were some 300 others who refused to renounce their Protestantism.

This account of the reformation in England under Edward VI challenges many established views and also gives an account of the religion of young Elizabeth I.